Quotes about comedy
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Ronald Reagan1911–2004Remarks at Human Rights Day event (10 December 1986)I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Speech threatening to veto legislation raising taxes (13 March 1985)
Burt Reynolds1936–2018“Burt Reynolds Has Made Mistakes. But He Regrets Nothing.” in The New York Times (23 March 2018). Chosen as the Quote of the Day for 6 September 2018.- Burt Reynolds1936–2018Attributed to Reynolds in: Orange Coast Magazine, Oct. 1984. p. 143
My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.
Burt Reynolds1936–2018In: Briton Hadden, Henry Robinson Luce (1972). Time, Vol. 100. p. 43You can be married and bored, or single and lonely. Ain’t no happiness nowhere.
Chris Rockborn 1965Never Scared (HBO, 2004)I mean, they don’t grade fathers. But if your daughter’s a stripper, you fucked up.
Chris Rockborn 1965Never Scared (HBO, 2004)I threw the kitchen sink at him but he went to the bathroom and got his tub.
Andy Roddickborn 1982After losing the 2004 Wimbledon final to Roger Federer; quoted by BBC News (4 July 2004)
Joe Roganborn 1967Joe Rogan: Live (2006), “The Devolution of Stupid People”If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?
Will Rogers1879–1935Daily Telegram #1230, Congress Session, Rogers Says, Is Like Baby Getting A Hammer (4 July 1930)- Will Rogers1879–1935Nationally syndicated column number 42, Blames All Ills on Earthquake (1923)
- Will Rogers1879–1935The Illiterate Digest (1924)